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Beware of Stuxnet Spyware

A piece of malware known as Stuxnet has been playing out many of the fears of critical infrastructure owners around the world. The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems. That makes it the first publicly-known [...]

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E-mail Hacking Anatomy

Written by a programmer or acquired by a criminal, an e-mail virus is a piece of computer code spread via email and designed to run on any computer. Occasionally, the code is nested in an attachment and installed after the victim opens it up. Once it gets its hooks into your computer, the virus can [...]

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Beware of FaceBook Video Scams

Diverse new Facebook frauds are making the rounds today, and although they follow the same pattern , some users are still falling for them. One can only advice, to not to click on suspicious links if one is not absolutely surewhether they are safe or not. Try not to give away any personal info. If [...]

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Hacking ATM

@bobmcmillan reported from #blackhat Barnaby Jack, a security researcher with IOActive, demonstrated attacks on ATM machine. Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines, the researcher from IOActive was able to get them to spit out money on demand and record sensitive data from the cards of people who used them. He showed the attacks on [...]

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Detect if Google is watching you

A new plugin called Google Alarm alerts the user every time user’s personal details is being sent to Google’s servers. The point, according to creator Jamie Wilkinson (who also developed Know Your Meme and Mag.ma), is to make users aware of how much information the search engine giant actually collects on any one individual. More [...]

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Prying on cellphone goes simpler, cheaper!

Chris Paget, a security expert said that he has come up with a simple and low-cost way to eavesdrop on cellphone communications, claiming that most of the wireless networks are unequipped of assuring calls won’t be intercepted. His technique only works with wireless systems based on GSM technology, which is used by most of the [...]

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Govt. to favour cyber monitoring for tracking terror network

The Government informed that there were evidence to suggest that terrorists are using several means for communication which includes the use of internet and e-mail. Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha stated: “The Department of Information Technology (DIT) has initiated a major programme [...]

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FirePassword

FirePassword is a FREE console based tool which can be used to recover login passwords stored by Firefox at once. All secret details which are stored in Firefox sign-on database securely in an encrypted format can be instantly decrypted by FirePassword and one can recover the secrets even if they are protected with master password. [...]

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FireMaster

It’s a tool which is used for retrieving lost master password of Firefox. Master password is used by Firefox to protect the stored sign-on information for all visited websites. If the master password is forgotten, then there is no way to get back the master password and user will lose all the sign-on information saved [...]

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The Interactive Kiosk Attack Tool

Now this is something we call big & breaking. We have seen a lot of interactive kiosks around and at time we have seen the windows XP taskbar at ATM machines too and most of the time the software are old, the patches are not properly installed. iKAT is a website which can be accessed from [...]

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